Friday, September 30, 2005

By Greg ReevesWhen it comes to tattoos that spell out a purpose in
life, Missouri prison inmates pick "born to lose"
nearly seven times more often than "born to win". "Born to raise
hell" runs a close second as a tattooed statement of meaning.
Here are the "born to" stats of inmate tattoos:

"What a stupid ass survey. How is this information important at all? I guess if I ever went to prison, I would know what all the "popular" tattoos were in order to fit in. Oh and "bunny"??? BUNNY? Who the hell did this survey? A woman?"

"I have a feeling that "BUNNY" means playboy bunny. Its a very popular tattoo among the ladies. Note that they did not specify gender, these are stats from all inmates; male and female."

"There is an ongoing study in Russia regarding prison tatooing and it's meaning in the criminal underworld. It is much more like Yakuza tattooing in that it specifically identifies the criminal as such. I am guessing this is not the case here in the states? Unless Unicorns are specifically from women's prisons..."

"Tears = # of tears correlates with number of people tattoo-ee has killed."

This tells us Missouri prison inmate tattoos are a matter of great public interest - or at least curiosity - so we plan to draw more from the 68,430 different tattoos in our Missouri inmate database.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

By Greg ReevesThe Kansas City
home invasion reported today in which one of the robbers had "KC" tattooed on his neck caused us to look up the most popular tattoos of Missouri prison inmates. See our previous post on the robberies.
We happen to have that data from the Missouri Department of Corrections, though it's somewhat old (1997). Later versions of the department's data omitted the tattoo descriptions.